A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Rather
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
我宁愿在自己的地板上烂掉，也不愿在养老院被一群玩宾果游戏的人发现。
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
我宁愿有无法回答的问题，也不愿有无法质疑的答案。
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
我宁愿尝试做一些伟大而失败的事情，也不愿尝试什么都不做而成功。
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
我们的房子是如此笨重的财产，以至于我们经常被囚禁而不是被他们所居住。
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
我宁愿坐在南瓜上独享一切，也不愿挤在天鹅绒垫子上。
Sitting and listening to a clock tick is not a waste of time, but rather an appreciation of it.
坐着听时钟滴答作响不是浪费时间，而是对它的一种欣赏。
Words can be very powerful. Why not use them to lift someone up today rather than knock them down.
语言可以很强大。为什么今天不用它们来扶起一个人，而不是把他们打倒。
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
人们发现，每个时代都必须写自己的书;或者更确切地说，每一代都是为了下一代的成功。
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
我若自夸过于得体，我的借口是，我自夸是为人性，不是为自己。
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
在写作的世界里，我所做的一切，都是为了扩大表达，而不是关闭它。
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.
我知道这听起来很疯狂，但是你必须让你将要做的事情找到你，而不是你去追求它。
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
在一些无辜人民正在死亡的国家，领导人是在追随他们的鲜血，而不是他们的头脑。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I'd rather die tomorrow than to live a hundred years without knowing you.
我宁愿明天死去，也不愿活一百年而不认识你。
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
孤独不是你将来必须希望的东西。相反，它是对当下的深化，除非你在当下寻找它，否则你永远不会找到它。
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
如何达到清晰?主要是通过找麻烦和写作来为人们服务，而不是给他们留下深刻印象。
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
但是，由于许多人努力获取知识而不是生活得很好，他们经常受到欺骗，从他们的劳动中收获很少或没有好处。
It's hard to look in the mirror these days when everyone has everything you'd rather be.
如今，当每个人都拥有你想成为的一切时，你很难照镜子。
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
友谊是多余的，像哲学，像艺术……它没有生存价值;相反，它是那些赋予生存价值的东西之一。